Adding Spanish Characters

You can easily add the International US
Keyboard which supports Spanish language keyboard
to your Windows® operating system. This makes it very easy
to use Spanish accents, exclamation and interrogation marks amongst
other things.

Here is how you can do this:

From the START menu click on Run and type
intl.cpl and click OK (An alternative way is to go to the
Control Panel and Regional and Language Options)

Select the Language tab

Click on the Details button

Select the Settings tab

Click the ADD button

In
the first box select English (United States) - see first image

In the second box elect United
States-International - see first image

Click "OK" twice to close the screens

You can also make United States international the
Default input language.

This is an excellent option if you do not want to change
keyboards continuously. Accents are used the same way as in the Spanish
keyboard. However, the Ñ is done as an accent (shift, ~,
N). Try it!

To type the special
characters, two keystrokes are required. To type the á, you need only
strike the apostrophe key and then the letter a. The other characters
are just as easy:

á = ' + a
é = ' + e
í = ' + i
ó = ' + o
ú = ' + u
ñ = ~ + n
ü = " + u

To type the special
punctuation characters, you need to hold down on the Alt key while you
strike the appropriate punctuation mark. On some keyboards, only one of
the two Alt keys will work for this.